Philly man held for trial in death

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 75-year-old Philadelphia man has been ordered held for trial on charges he killed his 74-year-old wife and tried to blame the crime on an innocent neighbor.

At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said Louis Hartdegen confessed to strangling his wife of 52 years, staging their apartment to make it look like a burglary and rape, and telling authorities that a neighbor did it.

TOKYO — Tons of contaminated groundwater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have overwhelmed an underground barrier and are emptying daily into the Pacific, creating what a top regulator has called a crisis.

The water contains strontium and cesium as well as tritium, which is considered less dangerous when released into the ocean. The plant’s operator says it does not yet pose